Before the lights on the world go out there are huge white sound explosions and a lot of screaming and a lot of suffering.
There is a lot of screaming. Before, child, maybe centuries before the world ends this is how the ending begins or maybe how our middle age kicks off, with nuclear dynamite candles and collapsible world economy.
Before the world ends there will be rocks by the sea and people trapped between cancer and despair, before the world ends a lot is going to happen . And when the world ends I guess it will be with billowing smoke clouds and whimpers.
This is the way, this is the way the world ends.
My nightmares include tiled bathrooms, Lincoln logs and orphanages, my nightmares include barbed wire, fences, and boxcars boxcars boxcars boxcars and they have come to get us and we have been found
mY nightmares may have been true once upon a time.
I used to think if they came for me I would hide in the corner and cower away from flashlights and they’d find me and shoot me or put me to work.Now I know I could not do that.
Herd animals comfort me that without me life might be ok and those boxcars rattle in the traintracks in my brain.
And that was the way it ended once, with traintracks and a whirr of fans and a crowded room, gas, gas, gas. Not with a bang, but a fanblade.
And the past and future are haunting me and here I am caught screaming global economy president bush nuclear war iraq, korea, iran, china cancer clouds, nuclear winter, the day after tomorrow
And escape is impossible from my head, off of this earth and away from our memories. And there was a wise man who told me once and I believed it
this is the way the world ends, not with a bang, but a whimper.
Author notes
"This is the way the world ends; not with a bang, but a whimper" -T.S Eliot
It's about my dreams about the holocaust and the apocalypse, nuclear war, etc... I dont think I like it.
June 7, 2006
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A contest entry
- [it's the end of the world.] by -foreverandever.
535 points, ended February 27, 2007, 16 entries
Silver trophy winner
• next poem in this contest, remove from contest
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great descriptions in this!
"boxcars rattle in the traintracks in my brain."
congrats on the silvah! =]]
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i think i've fallen in love with this..
it really is wonderful.
'Before the world ends there will be rocks by the sea and people trapped between cancer and despair, before the world ends a lot is going to happen . And when the world ends I guess it will be with billowing smoke clouds and whimpers.
This is the way, this is the way the world ends.'
do you mind if i use that on my author page?
say no if you don't want me to, by all means.
thank you again for entering
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amazing write.
good luck in the contest.
<3
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Your poem is sooo much better than mine...now i'm embaressed for entering in this contest.
"And that was the way it ended once, with traintracks and a whirr of fans and a crowded room, gas, gas, gas. Not with a bang, but a fanblade."
Man, girl. You're powerful.
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firstly, i adore that poem by T.S Eliot. it's wonderful- was thinking about it when i got the idea for my contest. but i suppose that's sort of irrelevant.
regarding your author's comments;; i like it. i think it's perfect in its own right. it's blunt and rugged, which in a way i think makes it more emotive, as if straight from the heart.
the way you've written is stunning, repeating things but changing them slightly to give it more emphasis. i'm impressed.
'And that was the way it ended once, with traintracks and a whirr of fans and a crowded room, gas, gas, gas. Not with a bang, but a fanblade.' - that's very hardhitting. breathtaking.
thank you for entering,
& good luck
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